NGO: ISIS kills 102-year-old man, family in Syria

The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said.

The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) also killing his son, his grandson, his great-granddaughter and her mother, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

All the victims were Alawites, members of the same offshoot of Shiite Islam as Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.

Rooted in al-Qaeda in Iraq, ISIS is the most extremist group fighting in Syria’s war.

Initially welcomed by rebels seeking Assad’s overthrow, their systematic abuses and quest for hegemony turned the rest of the opposition against them.

ISIS killed the family while attacking Zanuba village in Hama, said the Observatory.

“Some members of the family were burned alive, others killed in their sleep,” it added.